Chrystia Freeland Quotes

I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be as hard as looking after a child.

I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school.

I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.

By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

If a mother is sitting in a chair at the office, someone needs to be at home with her child. In some cases, that is a father. Much of the time, the material manifestation of the conflict is a nanny.

I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.

All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.

If you've ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you'll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.

With four kids, it's hard to watch anything other than 'Sesame Street.'

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.

People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.

I have a husband, and babysitters; I find it hard. I find it amazing how single moms do it.

With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.

You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.

The primary part of the weekend is centered around my children, and I have to be flexible. To call an audible is to be liquid enough to understand that at any given time you have to be a chauffeur or a chaperone, especially for my 12-year-old and whatever her plans are.

Kayte is breast-feeding, and we do not have a nanny or a trusted baby-sitter at this time, so Faith goes everywhere with us.

I wanted to stay on TV because I've got kids who are school-aged, so I get to see them most days as opposed to going away for movies months and months at a time.

I didn't realise how hard it was to be a mom and keep it all together.

Of course there were times, particularly when you travel, when it's very tough to leave the kids, particularly when they were very young. I would try to take them with me when I could just so they could experience and see a little bit of what a work day involved.

Working from home while caring for children seems impossible.

I needed a writing space to get out of my house with the little guy. Because any time I try to write or sit down and do things, he wants to be there with me and play the guitar.

I have children, and they demand my full and complete attention. They get that when I'm at home, even during the night, but it is really hard, and I do wonder how a lot of women do it without bawling their eyes out every day.